Whorl-Shaped Brooch 550–650 Frankish Garnets, worked in the cloisonné technique, featured prominently in the luxury jewelry of the Franks. Jewelers would solder small compartments arranged in geometric patterns onto the surface of a metal disk. In those cells, or cloisons, they would place a textured piece of gold foil, which would show through the thin translucent garnet that would then be set on Whorl-Shaped Brooch 465344 Frankish, Whorl-Shaped Brooch, 550?650, Copper alloy, gilding, niello, garnet, Overall: 1 5/16 x 5/16 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. G
Whorl-Shaped Brooch 550–650 Frankish Garnets, worked in the cloisonné technique, featured prominently in the luxury jewelry of the Franks. Jewelers would solder small compartments arranged in geometric patterns onto the surface of a metal disk. In those cells, or cloisons, they would place a textured piece of gold foil, which would show through the thin translucent garnet that would then be set on Whorl-Shaped Brooch 465344 Frankish, Whorl-Shaped Brooch, 550?650, Copper alloy, gilding, niello, garnet, Overall: 1 5/16 x 5/16 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 ()
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